How To Use Sperm whale In A Sentence
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Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale.
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Curiously, while sperm whales unquestionably have teeth, recent molecular data and a reanalysis of their anatomy has suggested that they may be highly derived mysticetes.
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Living alongside the largest sharks ever known, the raptorial—meaning actively hunting—whale measured about 60 feet (18 meters) in length, about as big as a modern male sperm whale.
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Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales.
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It was then that spermaceti, which is made from the oil of the sperm whale came on the scene.
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Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales.
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The fleet's five vessels plan to catch 260 whales - 150 minke, 50 Bryde's, 50 sei and 10 sperm whales as part of a scientific research project.
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Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding.
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I'm hanging beneath the boat doing a safety stop, eyes fixed on my dive computer, oblivious to the fact that, behind me, a huge albino sperm whale is flossing its teeth on the anchor line.
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Dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart disease found in humans, has afflicted the pygmy sperm whale and the dwarf sperm whale.
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Adult sperm whales average 15m in length, but can reach a maximum of 20m and a weight of 70 tonnes.
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Japan, which uses a scientific loophole to claim its whaling is for scientific research, will this year kill hundreds of endangered Pacific minke, sei, Bryde's and sperm whales.
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What body changes occur when the sperm whale dives?
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The sperm whale is 1 of 6 Gulf whales listed as endangered.
Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us
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The sperm whale, or cachalot, is one of the cetaceans, a group of marine mammals whose ancestors were probably land animals.
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In chapter 15, "The Right Whale's Head," the narrator says that the Right Whale is a Stoic and the Sperm Whale is a Platonian, referring to two classical schools of philosophy.
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Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid.
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In-depth comparison of sulfurized jojoba and sperm whale oils as extreme-pressure/extreme-temperate lubricants.
Chapter 13
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The eight-night cruise begins in June - perfect for the midnight sun - and you've a strong chance of seeing minkes, orcas and sperm whales.
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Candles were also made from spermaceti, which is a substance taken from the head of the sperm whale.
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Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales.
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On sighting a pod of sperm whales, the Essex lowered her boats and gave pursuit.
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From 1700 for two centuries, thousands of sperm whales were killed and the oil in their heads called spermaceti was used to make candles.
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The average sperm whale is 72 feet long and about 90 tons in weight.
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Fishermen found a 50-foot, 50-ton sperm whale beached on the coast of Taiwan last Saturday.
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Well, he explains, he once dissected a baby sperm whale brought aboard ship.
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A dozen of us watch five sperm whales broach, and then hyperventilate like marathoners on the starting line, filling every air-bearing cell with oxygen.
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In turn, the squid is preyed upon by large fish such as marlin and swordfish, and it's a main staple of sperm whales.
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In the anti-whaling capitals of the world, the ships' haul of 43 Bryde's whales, five sperm whales and 40 smaller minkes was met with outrage.
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As it just so happens - and this is pure coincidence - the meat from the minke, sei and sperm whales analytically slaughtered during the sheerly scientific research program is sold commercially.
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The nobler of the two is the sperm whale.
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A whale is killed-a great sperm whale.
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Our love for the kiwi, the kokako, and the sperm whale unites us all - as does our commitment to their future well-being.
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Fishery managers believe that a few low-decibel pings in the ocean, usually inaudible 300 meters away, have to be better than killing porpoises in Maine or sperm whales in California.
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Not long after this, the Jungfrau lowers boats again; they have seen the spout of a Fin Back, a whale impossible to capture due to its swimming speed, and mistake it for a Sperm Whale.
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Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced.
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Sperm whales and dolphins normally swim in pods.
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Giant sperm whales are migratory, following the summer from northern to southern hemispheres.
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The Sperm whale is the largest whale, and it's oil, called spermaceti, is the most valuable.
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And then to have the opportunity to go to the next step and to see what that sperm whale is doing in its abyssal world, a mile deep into the ocean, when we couldn't possibly be with it any other way than with the Crittercam [the underwater camera system we developed].
First Person Singular: Greg Marshall, inventor, marine biologist
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Zealand Berardius easily beats the ichthyosaurus; our sperm whale is more than a match for any Jurassic European deinosaur; our rorqual, one hundred feet long, just equals the dimensions of the gigantic American
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Giant squid beaks in the stomach of sperm whales are believed to be one of the prime sources for ambergris, a valuable substance used in making perfume.
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Still, whale-related products remained in high demand, especially the fine oil derived from spermaceti (the oil extracted from the head of sperm whales).
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There he found the skeleton of a whale, a sperm whale, which had become a shrine for the natives.
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The remaining indigenous mammals are all marine, comprising whales and seals, and include Southern right whale (Balaena glacialis), rare sightings of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), orca (Orcinus orca), the most common whale observed at Macquarie Island, and long fin pilot whale (Globicephala melaena), the only other whale to be seen in any numbers around Macquarie Island.
MacQuarie Island, Australia
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We also learn that the jojoba, or Simmondsia chinensis, helped save the sperm whale, after it was discovered that oil from the plant had properties similar to whale oil and could be used to lubricate high-speed machinery.
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Thus the fat or oil of dozens of different nuts and plant-products and of lower animals and fishes, and of sheep, oxen, pigs, dogs, elephants, and men contain different and special chemical substances, corresponding to the "cetyl" which is present in the fat of the sperm whale's head.
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Ishmael ponders the brow of the sperm whale.
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With deep waters close inshore, sperm whales can sometimes even be seen from the shoreline.
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Sperm whale mothers wean their calves on pieces of squid.
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And whale watching is becoming a popular attraction; sperm whales are regularly sighted off the west coast, as are humpbacks.
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Gosnell Hall, the largest room in the museum, contains a skeleton of a forty-six-foot-long sperm whale, a thirty-foot-long whaleboat, whaling tools, and ship captains' portraits.
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Taking yet another example, compare the visual fields of man, rabbits and the sperm whale.
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And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying — the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring — that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
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The sperm whale, a toothed mammal whose lower jaw resembles a vast surfboard with peaked crenellations at its edges, has been found at 3000 metres.
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Killer whales eat a wide range of ocean critters, from salmon to sperm whales.
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Sperm whales swim in family pods in deep water offshore.
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The sperm whale feeds on monster squid and poulp such as we rarely, if ever, see alive or washed up on the shore.
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Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales.
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They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
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Cetacean, for, although the sperm whale has a gullet sufficiently large to admit the body of a man, yet, it can hardly be the fish intended, as the natural food of Cetaceans consists of small animals, such as medusae and crustacea.
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Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid.
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The sperm whale dives to a mile and more and can stay under for two hours.
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Crews are leery of the full-grown sperm whale bull (up to sixty feet in length), a rarer sight.
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Evoking the poster for the original summer blockbuster, a new species of killer sperm whale attacks a baleen whale in an illustration.
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Seconds later, at the edge of visibility, a sperm whale and her calf appeared.
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Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales.
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The sperm whale is believe to dive deeper than any other cetacean.
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As it just so happens - and this is pure coincidence - the meat from the minke, sei and sperm whales analytically slaughtered during the sheerly scientific research program is sold commercially.
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Sperm whales also produce ambergris, probably from waste coalescing around indigestible substances in the intestinal tract.
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They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
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It is likely, they conclude, that the ability to produce double pulses is shared by other whales in the same sub-order known as odontocete cetaceans - whales with teeth - such as killer, pilot and sperm whales.
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Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
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In 1994, 21 dolphins and three sperm whales washed ashore along the central coast of California
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The great depths also attract most of the cetacean species seen off the North Sulawesi coast, including migrating sperm whales.
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In Bénard cells, which also form on the surface of the sun, the organizing gradient is literally a temperature gradient across a viscous fluid, sometimes spermaceti, sperm whale oil.
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Fishermen found a 50-foot, 50-ton sperm whale beached on the coast of Taiwan last Saturday.
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On the other hand, one species of parasitic nematode can reach 13 meters in length - it parasitizes the sperm whale - and adult nematomorphs, chaetognaths, and some priapulids are also visible to the naked eye.
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In the chill of the Arctic and Antarctic, as in the chill of the deep abyss, the sperm whale is warmed by what whalers call ‘the blanket’, which is eight inches of blubber.
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In turn, the squid is preyed upon by large fish such as marlin and swordfish, and it's a main staple of sperm whales.
